Five indicted on sex charges

M.D. Brown Jr., 39, and Rebecca Helton, 32, both of Scalf, are co-defendants in a case that involved incidents that allegedly occurred between June and August 2013.

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Brown is charged with three-counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree sexual abuse.

Helton is facing indictment on two counts of complicity to commit rape in the first degree.

The incidents allegedly involved three different victims, all of which were under the age 18 at the time.

In other sex-related indictments, Siler resident James Privett was indicted on three counts of sodomy, three counts of incest, three counts of first-degree sexual abuse, and one count of distribution of obscene matter to a minor.